Boosting Optical Nonlinearities in Є-Near-Zero Plasmonic Channels

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Argyropoulos, Christos
Chen, Pai-Yen
D'Aguanno, Giuseppe
Alù, Andrea
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The anomalous transmission properties of zero-permittivity ultranarrow channels are used to boost Kerr nonlinearities and achieve switching and bistable response for moderate optical intensities. Strong field enhancement, uniform all along the channel, is a typical feature of ε-near-zero supercoupling and is shown to be particularly suited to enhance nonlinear effects. This is obtained by designing narrow apertures at cutoff in a plasmonic screen. We show that this nonlinear mechanism can significantly outperform nonlinearities in traditional Fabry-Pérot resonant gratings.

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2012-01-27
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Argyropoulos, C., Chen, P., D'Aguanno, G., Engheta, N., & Alù, A. (2012). Boosting optical nonlinearities in ε-near-zero plasmonic channels. Physical Review B, 85(4), 045129. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.85.045129 ©2012 American Physical Society
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